hi welcome back to garden ninja now today this has arrived in the post and
its a grass strimmer from STIHL so they have asked me would I do a product review on
whether this bad boy measures up in the garden when it comes to lawn care so
come on let's get cracking the first thing to note is that this is an
electric strimmer it doesn't have a cable so it's rechargeable so one of the
drawbacks with normal strimmers is you've got a big cable that you're
looking around being careful not to strim over it or trip over it you don't
have that problem with this one because it's completely cordless so another nice
feature of this still hedge trimmer is this rubber handle now you can move this
around into different positions unlocking this not here as you can see
depending on which preference you have
you've also got this handle here it's just a nice old touch because when
you're holding one of these maybe out in the midday Sun can get a bit hot and
bothered and even with gloves your hands can slip this feels a bit more secure so
quite like that it's a nice feature so before you use any mechanical tools
strimmers lawn mowers you need to make sure that you've got the right health
and safety gear so what you're gonna need is a pair of these super slick and
sexy I wear otherwise known as protective goggles there's some really
interesting safety features with this model because not only have you got sort
of a one-two-three lock system that you need before it starts you've also got
this little space here you have a lot that's for an activation key so you're
gonna pop in the safety key there and then you've got one two three switches
so you go one two hold the bottom with this finger is
so I've got the safety pin out so this isn't gonna start because this is the
circuit breaker now taking it out because I want to show you the blades at
the end and also this guard now the guard goes into two positions as
I've already mentioned and that protects you from basically smashing up the
propeller or the twine if you've got twine in there from getting damaged it
does mean that you're restricted as to how far you can get so you can lift that
up and go manual be careful because if you get too close with any strimmer
you're gonna damage the blade or the surface string against so I've got the
safety pin out it's turned off I'm gonna show you these blades now so these are
the plastic what I call propeller blades but you can also fit some streamline or
trimming twine into there which loop through and that's like a piece of
plastic that's a lot thinner than that that will spin around so in my
experience the plastic will get you a closer cut because you can have it
slightly longer than these but these are more resilient so I prefer these and
also I'll show you at the end I have a little storage house in here which it's
a really nice feature and there's still extra that's why I find it relatively
easy to put on they get damaged don't need your facing again make sure it's
safe and turned off we've got gloves and your battery catches out exchange
so you can see the amount of charge that still extra my house by this battery
gauge here so once you put your PIN in which goes in that side you can press
the on button there we go and it will show you I got a bit closer we've got a
full charge there but it basically gives you how much charge the machine has but
it's charging it'll flash so you know roughly how long you've got on the
instruction manual it says that you've got about 20 minutes which is probably
long enough for most Gardens however you've got a larger garden it would be
better to have separate batteries because you're gonna have to put this
down and recharge it before you can continue so bear that imagine you're
buying any strimmer so there we have it my review of this STIHL lawn strimmer
now I quite like the product I think it's well balanced I really like the
fact that there's a little container where you can put the replacement blades
because more often than not when one gets damaged or it's replacing your
share to transpire them so I think that's a really nice touch
it's relatively lightweight like I said the only drawback is I would like
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